Dynamics of T2 DNA during electrophoresis in entangled and ultradilute hydroxyethyl cellulose solutions
โ Scribed by Richard W. Hammond; Xuelong Shi; Michael D. Morris
- Book ID
- 102660742
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 825 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-7685
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โฆ Synopsis
Video microscopy has been used to investigate the conformational changes that double stranded DNA undergoes during capillary electrophoresis in buffered solutions of hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC). DNA of a fixed size (T2, 167 kbp) was used to quantitate the degree of extension. At HEC concentrations below the entanglement limit, C*, extension of DNA under DC fields is much less than in gels. Pulsed fields serve to limit extension even further, with DNA strands approaching a time-averaged irregular conformation that yields rapid sizing of long nucleic acids.
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Studies of electrophoretic separations of DNA restriction fragments by capillary electrophoresis in solutions of (hydroxyethyl) cellulose (HEC) were performed. Rheological studies were used to confirm that the entanglement threshold (a\* ) for the HEC solutions used is approximately 0.004 g/mL, in g
## Abstract Capillary electrophoresis (CE) in entangled polymer solutions was studied using pBR322 DNA Hae III digest as a model sample. The influences of polymer nature, monomer chain length, and polymer concentration were investigated. The use of a novel polymer, galactomannan, as the entangled m